114. A VOTE FOR THE PLANET: making this the climate election
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Hello! The climate crisis is higher on the political agenda than ever before, with more than half of people saying it will influence how they vote in the UK general election. We’re discussing how to ensure that this is the first ‘climate election’ with Alice Bell from climate campaign Possible and Fatima Ibrahim from Green New Deal UK. Then Catherine Abreu talks us through the role of climate policy in Canada’s recent election and what the rest of the world can learn from it.
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Comedian Jen Brister joins us to sift through the more hopefully stories in another week of general election campaigning
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| 1:29.4 | Hello, Don Kester. How are you? |
| 1:32.6 | I am fine. It's all fine, my end. How is it with you? How's it on the campaign trail? |
| 1:37.2 | It's fine. It's just, um, lots of knocking on doors. I do think I was thinking this week. |
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